Well, I was supposed to run that 10,000m to qualify for the JC State Meet. Didn't happen. Don't want to re-type the story now, but here's what I posted on facebook. blah. Hope everyone else had a better week!

Well, it seems that my time running for SRJC is sadly at an end. Apparently, while there is no rule about it on the official CCCAA ByLaws online (at least as of this morning), it is against those bylaws (or some official addendum in the last 12 months that isn't to be found on the CCCAA website) to run unattached during the season. Thus, my participation at the community 3,200m at the Viking Open made me ineligible for the postseason. Even better, we were told of this after arriving in Sac last night for this morning's 10,000m NorCal race (where I was seeded #1), where I had the chance to get an SRJC BearCub onto the state meet.

One of the great things about our sport is people are rarely petty and rarely go out of their way to screw with others for no real reason. We all understand the toils and tribulation of our fellow athletes and support each other as we compete both against each other but even more-so against ourselves. Unfortunately, stuff like this does happen on occasion, but so it goes. There are always more races, and while I won't have the chance to make some noise at the JC State Meet for Coach Wellman and the rest of SRJC, I certainly appreciate the awesome opportunity I had these past few months.

That being said, if anyone knows who went out of their way to email in this apparent (I say apparent as no one has yet given us an official rule chapter/verse that I broke) infraction, please tell them to publicly let me know who they are and why they did what they did. If it's a rule, it's a rule, I understand, but the least s/he can do is explain that to me face to face.

This was the biggest mileage week I have done in several years, yet I had no workout and everything was at a very relaxed pace with exception of the 6x15 sec. strides on Friday. I actually did not feel so well early in the week, but felt better each day. I had been feeling run down and mileage does not seem to bother me, but running daily runs too fast + hard workouts, so I took a week off from doing all of that and going forward am going to return to running easy runs sans Garmin, as I run at a more appropriate speed for my fitness without that thing.

Another good mileage week for me with 76 miles. Included a 5k race today (18:42) and a light workout of a handful of 200's on Wed. Body's holding up pretty good ... Now have a few weeks till Marin 10K. Focus on keeping mileage strong with some light 600, 800 and 1000 workouts.

rfl86 - so sorry that you didn't get the chance to air it out one more time on the track for srjc. No doubt disappointing, stay positive young man. Next chapter up ...

RFL- ugh that sucks! Agree that I hope you find who brought this to their attention so you could better understand why, and why now. Bah humbug.

SCFoodie - many congrats on dropping so much time and PRing! Fabulous!

radi - great week!!!

ken - solid!

obtuse - glad you are giving yourself some time to recover. You really deserve this down time. Although I am a little disappointed you didn't partake in a bit of tequila along with that on-course chips and salsa...

M - hard core power yoga

T - 5.93 @ 8:43 a.m., yin yoga p.m.

W - power yoga a.m.

Th - 8.82 @ 8:55

F - USRD (hubs went to Sac for the day. Didn't tell me until I was going to bed early for yoga, that he had an early flight. Humph!)

R2TH, SCFoodie and brdrski - congrats on the new PR's and good seeing you, R2TH, briefly before the race start. Radi - nice mileage week.

Mon - 9.40 milesTue - 11.35 milesWed - 11.85 miles

Thu - 0.00 milesFri - 9.60 milesSat - 2.75 milesSun - 28.55 miles (OC Marathon - 26.45 miles - 3:45:01 plus 2.10 miles). Paced 3:45:00 group but I had it 1.45 miles between the Mile 25 marker and the finish line. Not the optimal place to have the most off mile marker of the entire course. The other 3:45 pacer and I literally hit the brakes when we hit the 25 mile marker so we wouldn't finish at 3:43 only for the Mile 26 marker to take its sweet a$$ time before appearing and then it was one second too late for me to compensate and the other 3:45 pacer was right behind me at the finish, six seconds later.

TOTAL = 73.50 miles and no frigging crosstraining. Still, my best mileage week in the last eight weeks and 3:45:01 felt almost effortless today compared to 3:44:09 at L.A. feeling like death was coming over me for the final 7 miles of the race).

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